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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sprint Corp., hampered for years by a troubling merger with Nextel Communications, agreed to pay $131 million to settle a class action investor lawsuit it triggered. The deal ends six years of battle that produced 8.7 million pages of documents, 65 subpoenas, 40 depositions and mediation sessions with a nationally recognized mediator. It includes claims from each side that settling makes more sense than continuing the fight. In an emailed statement, Sprint said it "has and will continue to operate in complete adherence with all federal securities laws. Nevertheless, our company has reached an agreement to settle this matter to avoid further expense and distraction...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sprint Corp., hampered for years by a troubling merger with Nextel Communications, agreed to pay $131 million to settle a class action investor lawsuit it triggered.
The deal ends six years of battle that produced 8.7 million pages of...

Hundreds of union workers, family members and political leaders rallied in downtown Whiting Friday on behalf of the 1,100 United Steelworkers on strike at BP Whiting Refinery, pledging their support and vowing to fight together.
The BP union members have...

United States Steel Corp. announced it would temporarily idle its steelmaking operations at Granite City, Ill., and lay off more than 2,000 local workers as part of a plan to consolidate its North American flat-rolled operations.
The move comes as...

United Steelworkers members working at BP Whiting Refinery and public school teachers have a common bond, according to the local USW president — they both found themselves in a fight to maintain their collective bargaining rights.As other striking USW...

A judge Thursday declined to block Wisconsin's new right-to-work law, allowing it to remain in effect while a union lawsuit challenging the statute proceeds. Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust rejected the request by three unions to grant a temporary...

WHITING--A break in a firewater line at BP Whiting Refinery caused water with an oil-like sheen to spread outside the refinery's walls along a section of Indianapolis Boulevard Tuesday night.
BP spokesman Scott Dean said the break happened about 8 p.m....

GARY--US Steel announced Thursday that 83 probationary employees at its Gary and Portage facilities will be laid off at the end of the week, increasing the total number of potential layoffs at its Northwest Indiana plants to 752.
US Steel spokeswoman...

One month into a national strike and less than a week after they were urged to "stay the course," some United Steelworkers members are beginning to cross the picket line and return to work at BP Whiting Refinery, a BP spokesman said.
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"There's something about people who cannot accept differences in other people. The differences are not that important, but they don't have the wisdom to see it. We as humans have not learned to behave ourselves."
— Felicia Childress (retired...

Three weeks after they walked off the job at BP Whiting Refinery with no end to the strike in sight, members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 were urged Saturday to stay the course and not cross the picket lines.
"Solidarity is the key. It's they...

The BP Whiting Refinery reportedly had a third major flare-up in four days on Thursday, this time sending black smoke 100 feet into the air.
"We can see it from the (union) hall," said a striking member of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 who...

Standing in his living room, Steve Fusak recalled his 12 years working at the former Standard Oil refinery that looms behind his house, the fires that he said happened there all the time, and most vividly, the Aug. 27, 1955, explosion that flattened homes...

Striking BP Whiting Refinery employees cite safety as a key issue in the negotiations between the United Steelworkers and oil companies, and they say they don't have to look further back than Wednesday or beyond their own plant as proof that their...

Juniors and seniors from New Tech Initiative Institute listened to U.S. Steel employees Lillie O. Taylor and Sherry Schultz talk about their jobs last week as part of a weekly series of talks during Black History Month at the Gary Area Career Center.Known...

A union contractor tradesman who's working inside the BP Whiting refinery plant has joined dozens of other workers who've contacted me since United Steelworkers union members joined a national strike on Feb. 7.
The tradesman is not a member of USW and he...

"Profits over safety."
This is the picket line mantra of the BP Oil Refinery workers who've been striking outside the Whiting plant since Feb. 7, joining other union workers from across the country.
"The only thing that BP cares about...

WHITING--Picketing United Steelworkers at the BP Whiting Refinery are continuing to receive support from other union members and the company is making life easier for their replacement workers, as the national strike against oil refineries continues...

Three scoops of rice.
This is all that was delivered for dinner to a BP Whiting Refinery supervisor on Monday evening, according to the supervisor's husband.
"It's ridiculous and I'm concerned for the wellbeing of my wife while she's locked...

From the Chicago Skyway, the flares at BP's Whiting oil refinery look like burning cigarettes balanced upright.
They continued to fire this week even as 1,065 workers entered the second week of a national strike affecting 11 production facilities,...

As United Steelworkers members working at BP Whiting Refinery enter into their second week of a nationwide strike, they're gaining support from national and local political leaders, some of whom have visited the picket lines formed at various gates to the...